Nicaragua

How­ev­er, as a result of the social and polit­i­cal cri­sis that began in April 2018, Lux­em­bourg made changes to its devel­op­ment aid sup­port to Nicaragua. Thus, direct dis­burse­ments to the gov­ern­ment were frozen and the con­clu­sion of any new Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme (ICPs) was post­poned. Since that time, devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion in Nicaragua has fea­tured, notably, mul­ti­lat­er­al sup­port and sig­nif­i­cant aid to the NGOs in the country.

Since 2018, Lux­em­bourg has con­tin­ued to pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant sup­port to Nicaraguan civ­il soci­ety in rela­tion to the pro­mo­tion of human rights and demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues, par­tic­u­lar­ly through a mul­ti-donor sup­port fund for Nicaraguan civ­il soci­ety, FASOC. This brings togeth­er five donors and is imple­ment­ed by Oxfam. There is also a project by the NGO Front Line Defend­ers to sup­port human rights activists. In par­al­lel, mul­ti­lat­er­al pro­grammes were pri­ori­tised in 2020, includ­ing through the con­tin­ued financ­ing of a school can­teens project to

tack­le food and nutri­tion inse­cu­ri­ty for chil­dren in the north and north-east of Nicaragua through the World Food Pro­gramme (WFP). Lux­em­bourg also pro­vid­ed human­i­tar­i­an sup­port fol­low­ing the Eta and Iota hur­ri­canes, through emer­gency aid to the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent Soci­eties (IFRC) and tech­ni­cal assis­tance with the WFP for capac­i­ty-build­ing in the man­age­ment and pre­ven­tion of crises and nat­ur­al disasters.

Two Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs, Frères des hommes and Terre des hommes, imple­ment­ed activ­i­ties co-financed by the MFA in 2020, tar­get­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic par­tic­i­pa­tion, agri­cul­tur­al advi­so­ry ser­vices, voca­tion­al train­ing and the care of chil­dren and young peo­ple liv­ing in poor­er and deprived districts.